JAQR - October 8, 2023
James Boswell, Manuel Quezon, mazurkas, tectonic plates, Wyatt Earp, Atlantic provinces, flags depicting animals, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes two clues from each episode of Jeopardy! between Monday 10/2 and Friday 10/6. The recap will include Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and Triple Stumpers. The first half of the recap will include just the clues so you can quiz yourself if you want. The second half will give you some (hopefully) interesting information about the clues and/or some related info.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
HODGE PODGE
James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters
DAILY DOUBLE #2
THIS IS MY COUNTRY (name the country given its leader)
1935-1944--Manuel Quezon
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MERRY MELODIES
This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS
His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only"
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
GLOBAL GEOLOGY
In this nation of 360,000 people, you can walk along the boundaries of the Eurasian & North American tectonic plates
TRIPLE STUMPER #1A
THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP
In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday
TRIPLE STUMPER #1B
THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP
Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73"
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
4, 4 (the response is composed of two 4-letter words)
The Nobel Banquet is held in Stockholm in this room that can hold 1,300 guests
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
FRANKLY
This composer got a Pulitzer for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
CANADIAN CITIES
Fredericton is the capital of this Atlantic province
TRIPLE STUMPER # 5
SWORDS
The national flag of Sri Lanka depicts one of these animals holding a sword
BONUS CLUE #1
ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? (given a line, name the play)
"The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
DAILY DOUBLE #1
HODGE PODGE
James Boswell recounted this British man of letters' affection for his cat Hodge, for whom he bought oysters
***SAMUEL JOHNSON***
English author Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) wrote the 1749 poem The Vanity of Human Wishes, which imitates Juvenal's tenth satire and discusses the futility of human pursuit of greatness and happiness. The Rambler was a twice-weekly periodical in the early 1750s that featured essays written by Johnson about daily realities and literature. In 1755, he published A Dictionary of the English Language, which was the standard dictionary until Noah Webster came along. The dictionary memorably defined lexicographer as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words." His 1759 work Rasselas was possibly written in a single week to pay for the funeral of his mother. The work is a philosophical romance in which the title “Prince of Abissinia” escapes from his father and the so-called “Happy Valley” and goes on a journey across Africa that is filled with disappointment and disillusionment as he discovers that all occupations fail to bring satisfaction.
In 1763 he met the 22-year-old James Boswell (aka Bozzy), who would later go on to write one of the most famous biographies of all time, Life of Samuel Johnson. The biography includes an anecdote in which they are discussing George Berkeley’s belief in the non-existence of matter. Johnson then kicks a large stone and states "I refute it thus." In 1773, Johnson and Boswell took a walking tour of the Hebrides together and each wrote an account of it. One of Johnson’s last works was Lives of the Poets, which includes essays on 52 different English poets. Johnson may have suffered from Tourette syndrome since he had highly noticeable tics. A portrait by Joshua Reynolds that depicts Johnson with a seemingly confused look on his face has been the subject of many memes.
DAILY DOUBLE #2
THIS IS MY COUNTRY (name the country given its leader)
1935-1944--Manuel Quezon
***PHILIPPINES***
Manuel Quezon [KAY-zahn] served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944, the year he died of tuberculosis while in exile in the United States (specifically in Saranac Lake, New York, which is nicknamed the "Capital of the Adirondacks"). In the presidential election of 1935, he decisively defeated Emilio Aguinaldo [AH-gwee-NAL-doh], who had much earlier fought for the independence of the Philippines from both Spain and the United States. Aguinaldo had briefly served as the country's first president from 1899 to 1901, before the U.S. formed military and insular governments. Quezon is the namesake of Quezon City, which is the most populous city in the Philippines and served as capital from 1948 to 1976. The boxing match known as the "Thrilla in Manila" (between Ali and Frazier) actually took place in the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City.
DAILY DOUBLE #3
MERRY MELODIES
This 19th c. composer's Mazurka No. 9 (Op. 7 No. 5) is one of the peppier ones
***FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN***
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) was a Polish-born composer and pianist during the Romantic period. His compositions inspired by his homeland include 61 mazurkas (lively Polish dances) and 16 polonaises (slow dances of Polish origin in triple meter). His other works include 27 études (French for “studies,” they include “Black Key,” “Revolutionary,” and “Wrong Note”). Chopin had a relationship with the French novelist Aurore Dudevant, better known by her pen name George Sand, whose novels include one titled Indiana about a woman who abandons an unhappy marriage and finds love. Their relationship is the subject of the 1991 movie Impromptu, which starred Hugh Grant and Judy Davis. Chopin died of tuberculosis in 1849. Most of his body was buried in Paris at Père-Lachaise [“pair” lah-shez], but his heart was interred at a Warsaw church. If you have fifteen hours to spare, click below to hear all of his piano works:
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS
His 1904 will stipulated that "all the sums hereinbefore specified for prizes shall be used for prizes only"
***JOSEPH PULITZER***
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911) was a Hungarian-born newspaper publisher. He emigrated to the United States during the Civil War seeking a military career. He became a reporter after the Civil War in St. Louis and then started buying newspapers. In 1878, the St. Louis Evening Post merged with his paper, the St. Louis Dispatch, to become the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which today is the largest daily newspaper in the area. He moved to New York after one of his editors killed a rival, Alonzo W. Slayback, in self defense.
Pulitzer’s newspapers attempted to draw readers by covering sports and women's fashion, and included comics and illustrations. His most famous newspaper, the New York World (which is the namesake of the reference book The World Almanac) battled William Randolph Hearst's New York Evening Journal for readers. Both papers featured "yellow journalism,” which refers to sensationalism and lurid exaggeration. Pulitzer endowed Columbia University in his will, resulting in the creation of a school of journalism and his namesake prizes. The original seven prizes, first given out in 1917, were for reporting, editorial writing, public service, history, biography, novel, and drama.
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
GLOBAL GEOLOGY
In this nation of 360,000 people, you can walk along the boundaries of the Eurasian & North American tectonic plates
***ICELAND***
The North American and Eurasian tectonic plate boundaries run through Iceland, as can be seen in the picture below. Since the two plates are pulling in opposite directions, Iceland is actually getting larger by a few centimeters every year. Plate boundaries are often the site of orogeny (mountain building), earthquakes, and volcanic activity (e.g. Eyjafjallajökull, which last erupted in 2010, causing numerous air travel disruptions).
Some of the smaller but still important tectonic plates include:
Cocos - named for a Costa Rican island about 350 miles south of the mainland, the plate is subducting under the North American Plate, causing earthquakes in Mexico (e.g. 1985 Mexico City earthquake)
Juan de Fuca - named for a Greek explorer who served Spain's King Philip II, the plate is subducting under the North American Plate, causing eruptions in the Cascades (e.g. Mount St. Helens in 1980)
Nazca - named for a region in southern Peru, the plate is subducting under the South American Plate, resulting in the formation of the Andes Mountains
TRIPLE STUMPER #1A
THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP
In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday
***KEVIN COSTNER***
TRIPLE STUMPER #1B
THEY PLAYED WYATT EARP
Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73"
***WILL GEER***
American West frontiersman Wyatt Earp (1848-1929) participated in 1881’s thirty-second-long Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. The shootout pitted Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil (the town marshal) and Morgan, and friend Doc Holliday against the Clanton outlaw gang, which suffered three casualties in the gunfight. Wyatt Earp is also remembered for being the referee in the 1896 heavyweight championship boxing match between Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey. Earp controversially awarded the match (and the prize money) to Sharkey after ruling that Fitzsimmons had hit Sharkey below the belt.
Wyatt Earp helped Stuart N. Lake write his biography, which contained many exaggerated and untrue claims. The biography was the basis of the 1946 movie My Darling Clementine, which starred Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and was directed by John Ford. The actor Will Geer had a small role as Wyatt Earp in the 1950 Western Winchester '73, which follows the journey of the titular rifle from one ill-fated owner to another. Geer's left-wing leanings got him blacklisted in Hollywood, but he later played Zebulon "Grandpa" Walton on the TV show The Waltons. The epic biographical Western drama Wyatt Earp was a 1994 movie starring Kevin Costner. It was released a mere six months after the similar movie Tombstone, which received much better reviews.
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
4, 4 (the response is composed of two 4-letter words)
The Nobel Banquet is held in Stockholm in this room that can hold 1,300 guests
***BLUE HALL***
Most of the 2023 Nobel Prizes were recently awarded. The winners included:
Physiology or Medicine = Katalin Karikó & Drew Weissman - discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Physics = Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz & Anne L’Huillier - methods that generate attosecond (1 × 10 ^ −18 second AKA one quintillionth of a second) pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter
Chemistry = Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus & Alexei Ekimov - discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
Literature = Norwegian author Jon Fosse - innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable
Peace = Narges Mohammadi - fight against the oppression of women in Iran
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
FRANKLY
This composer got a Pulitzer for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
***FRANK LOESSER***
Frank Loesser [“lesser"] (1910-1969) wrote the music and lyrics to several Broadway musicals, including Guys and Dolls (based on stories by Damon Runyon and featuring the song “Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat,” heard below) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (in which the window washer J. Pierrepont Finch finds the title book and starts to climb the corporate ladder at World Wide Wicket Company). Loesser’s song “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” became famous during World War II. He also wrote the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” which became popular after appearing in the 1949 movie Neptune's Daughter. He was married to Jo Sullivan Loesser, who starred in his 1956 musical The Most Happy Fella (centers on Tony, a lovestruck wine-grower).
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
CANADIAN CITIES
Fredericton is the capital of this Atlantic province
***NEW BRUNSWICK***
Canada's four Atlantic provinces are:
New Brunswick - its capital of Fredericton is named for King George III’s son, Frederick; it’s Canada’s only officially bilingual province (French and English)
Newfoundland and Labrador - its capital of St. John’s is named for John the Baptist; it is composed of an island (Newfoundland) and a mainland area (Labrador)
Nova Scotia - its capital of Halifax is named for British statesman George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax; its name mean “New Scotland” in Latin
Prince Edward Island - its capital of Charlottetown is named for King George III’s wife, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; the province’s nicknames include “Garden of the Gulf” and “Million-Acre Farm”
TRIPLE STUMPER # 5
SWORDS
The national flag of Sri Lanka depicts one of these animals holding a sword
***LION***
Other flags containing animals include:
Albania = a black two-headed eagle
Bhutan = a black and white dragon (specifically, the Druk or Thunder Dragon)
Dominica = Sisserou parrot (unique to Dominica) encircled by 10 stars (pictured below)
Guatemala = a green and red quetzal (the national bird)
BONUS CLUE #1
ARE YOU SHAKESPEARIENCED? (given a line, name the play)
"The isle is full of noises, sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not"
***THE TEMPEST***
Jeopardy! loves asking about Shakespeare, so be sure to check out FJ #1 from this previous recap for some info about The Tempest: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-december-9-2022